Faith in the Enlightenment : The Critique of the Enlightenment Revisited.
Title:
Faith in the Enlightenment : The Critique of the Enlightenment Revisited.
Author:
Boeve, Lieven.
ISBN:
9789401203364
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (377 pages)
Series:
Currents of Encounter - Studies on the Contact between Christianity and Other Religions, Beliefs, an ; v.30
Currents of Encounter - Studies on the Contact between Christianity and Other Religions, Beliefs, an
Contents:
CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Enlightenment in Discussion -- PART I: HIGHPOINTS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT -- The Productive Power of Reason: Voices on Rationality and Religion - A Sketch of the Development of the Enlightenment and its Aftermath -- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Ring Parable: An Enlightenment Voice on Religious Tolerance -- Lessing and Schelling on Ancient Jewish History -- Thinking Less or Thinking Differently? Kant's Enlightened View of Evil -- Preludes to the Postmodern? Jacobi and the Agenda of the Enlightenment -- PART II: THE CONTINUATION OF THE PROJECT OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT? -- Enlightenment and Reductionism: Freud's Exemplary Theory of Religion -- The End of Privileged Perspectives: Blindness and Sight in the Identification of Religion -- Reconciling a Shattered Modernity: Habermas on the Enduring Relevance of the Judeo-Christian Ethical Tradition -- The 'Enlightened' Derrida: The Formalization of Religion -- Belief as Primordial Choice: Slavoj Žižek on the Status of Faith and Belief after the Enlightenment -- PART III: ALTERNATIVES TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT -- Does the Word 'God' Have the Same Meaning in Every Context? -- Faith and Fiction -- Between Apology and Sophianic Illumination: Vladimir Solovyov's Reaction to Enlightenment -- Spatial Metaphors in Pavel Florensky's Absolute Knowledge: Guideposts in a 'Lonely' Critique of Reason -- Can One Be Enlightened Without Using One's Head? A Zen Criticism of Rationality On Hisamatsu Schin'ichi (1898-1980) -- PART IV: A NEW APPROACH -- Religious Inwardness: A Challenge for Contemporary Phenomenology -- Unselfing in Love: A Contradiction in Terms -- Love Enlightened: The Promises and Ambiguities of Love -- Marion on Miracles: Of Insufficient Reason and a New Enlightenment -- Poetics of a Possible God -- The Particularity of the Hermeneutics of God: A Response to Richard Kearney's God-who-may-be.
POSTSCRIPTUM: The Critique of the Critique of Enlightenment -- List of Contributors -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- Index of Subjects -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- Z.
Abstract:
One of the urgent tasks of modern philosophy is to find a path between the rationalism of the Enlightenment and the relativism of postmodernism. Rationalism alone cannot suffice to solve today's problems, but neither can we dispense with reasonable critique. The task is to find ways to broaden the scope of rational thought without losing its critical power. The first part of this volume explores the ideas of Enlightenment philosophers and shows nuances often absent from the common view of the Enlightenment. The second part deals with some of the modern heirs of Enlightenment, such as Durkheim, Habermas, and Derrida. In the third part this volume looks at alternatives to Enlightenment thought in West European, Russian and Buddhist philosophy. Part four provides, over against the Enlightenment, a new starting point for the philosophy of religion in thinking about human beings, God, and the description of phenomena.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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